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xMore 1.4 A small and fast replacement for "more"
Yet another file reader, you might think, and you are right. I missed
small XPK-understanding file reader with reasonable feature list, but there
was none available. Most ( (c) 1992 by Uwe Röhm) can hardly be called
small (but it surely has 'reasonable' feature list!). I have to admit that
xMore is currently bigger than I planned it to be, but people don't seem to
want small programs, they want features! So, what do you get?
+ light speed search! No loss of speed even if case insensitive
and/or backwards!
+ wildcard search. Searching doesn't slow down if only "?" is
used (in fact it is FASTER when "?" is used).
+ hex mode.
+ FAST scrolling. Should beat Most (pun intended) textreaders
using customized Text() function with custom screen.
+ displays ANSI styles (no colors) and some backspace-styles
+ variable TAB size! (now you can read those funny #?.c
files with too much TABs ;)
+ can start one of the four possible editors.
+ freely definable keys!
+ font sensitivity, user definable font.
+ definable window dimensions, defaults to display size.
+ opens on any public screen or opens it's own screen.
+ multiple files from shell, Workbench and file requester.
+ pipe support.
+ clipboard support.
+ Support for Directory Opus compatibility.
+ character conversion.
+ lots of small details like default zoomed size exactly one
line high. Small things make the difference!
+ can be made resident (has been pure from day one, but who
remembers to mention everything)
+ OS 2.04 required (sorry, v36 users. There just is too much
functions in RKMs with text 'this function is broken in V36'
that I didn't bother dodging them. To pre-2.0 users xMore is
Yet Another Reason To Update. Come on guys, do you use CP/M
at work or what ? ;)
+ Can read files containig more than 65535 lines! With hex mode
this is MUST (256K+ file in narrow window = lots of lines!).
(This would be suitable place to mention certain well-known
directory utility and another XPK-supporting reader which both
assume no-one has REALLY big files, but that could give offence
to JP and UR, so I won't)
- wildcard search only supports "?"
- reads whole file into memory (EVERYBODY has min. 1 Meg today)
Author: Jorma Oksanen
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